ELECTRONIC COMMERCE SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM OF MOBILE TERMINALS USING PERSONAL AREA NETWORK

• US 20100070380A1
• Filed: 11/29/2006
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Inventors: Park, Ji-Hyung, Jeong, Jae-Heon
• Application Number:
  US12/516,221
• Publication Number:
  US 20100070380A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways

Abstract

Disclosed are a mobile shopping agent and a shop agent seller for reducing negotiation burdens between a seller and a buyer. The mobile shopping agent detects the shop agent'"'"'s entrance to a radio access area of a personal area network (Bluetooth, ultra wide-band, and Zigbee), requests shop goods information of desired goods from the shop agent through the radio access area of the personal area network when the shop agent has entered the radio access area, and receives the shop goods information. The mobile shopping agent requests online goods information on the desired goods from a goods information server through a communication network, and receives the online goods information. The mobile shopping agent determines a buying condition of the desired goods based on the shop goods information and the online goods information, and negotiates with the shop agent by using a game theory.

Claims

1. An electronic commerce system comprising:

a desired goods storage module for registering a user'"'"'s desired goods;

a first communication module for detecting a shop agent'"'"'s entrance to a radio access area of a personal area network, requesting shop goods information of the desired goods from the shop agent through the radio access area of the personal area network, and receiving the shop goods information of the desired goods when the shop agent has entered the radio access area;

a second communication module for requesting online goods information on the desired goods from the goods information server through a communication network, and receiving the same;

a buying negotiation module for determining a buying condition of the desired goods based on the shop goods information and the online goods information, providing the determined buying condition to the shop agent through the radio access area of the personal area network, and performing negotiation on the buying of the desired goods with the shop agent; and

a user interface module for notifying the user of a negotiated buying condition when the negotiation is successful.

2. The electronic commerce system of claim 1, wherein the electronic commerce system further includes a buying strategy storage module for registering a buying strategy on the desired goods, and

the buying negotiation module determines the buying condition in consideration of the buying strategy.

3. The electronic commerce system of claim 2, wherein

the buying strategy includes a change of the negotiation item.

4. The electronic commerce system of claim 3, wherein

the negotiation item includes at least one of price, delivery method, approval method, color, brand, buying quantity, coupon, points, mileage, and reserve.

5. The electronic commerce system of claim 4, wherein

the online goods information includes at least one of lowest price, the desired goods, highest price, delivery method, approval method, color, brand, buying quantity, coupon, points, mileage, and reserve of the desired goods.

6. The electronic commerce system of claim 5, wherein

the buying negotiation module determines a first negotiation proposal for satisfying the buying strategy based on the online goods information, and provides a second negotiation to the shop agent when the value of the first negotiation proposal is less than the value of the second negotiation proposal according to the shop goods information.

7. The electronic commerce system of claim 6, wherein

when the value of the first negotiation proposal is greater than the value of the second negotiation proposal, the buying negotiation module changes a value of a negotiation item of the second negotiation proposal to determine a third negotiation proposal, and provides the third negotiation proposal to the shop agent.

8. The electronic commerce system of claim 7, wherein

the buying negotiation module repeats control of the negotiation proposal a predetermined number of times, and notifies the shop agent of negotiation breakdown when the negotiation is not successful within the predetermined number of times.

9. The electronic commerce system of claim 1, further comprising

a approval execution module for performing an online approval with a approval server through the communication network when receiving buying determination information from the user.

10. A recording medium for storing a program including functions of:

detecting an entrance of a shop agent to a radio access area of a personal area network;

requesting shop goods information of desired goods from the shop agent through a radio access area of the personal area network when the shop agent has entered the radio access area of the personal area network to receive the shop goods information;

requesting online goods information of the desired goods from a goods information server through a communication network to receives the online goods information;

determining a buying condition of the desired goods based on the shop goods information and the online goods information;

providing the determined buying condition to the shop agent through the radio access area of the personal area network to negotiate with the shop agent about buying of the desired goods; and

notifying the negotiated buying condition of the user when the negotiation is successful.

11. The recording medium of claim 10, wherein

the buying strategy includes a change of negotiation items including at least one of price, delivery method, approval method, color, brand, buying quantity, coupon, points, mileage, and reserve, and

the online goods information includes at least one of lowest price, highest price, delivery method, approval method, color, brand, buying quantity, coupon, points, mileage, and reserve of the desired goods.

12. The recording medium of claim 11, wherein

the negotiating of buying of the desired goods includes functions of:

determining a first negotiation proposal for satisfying the buying strategy based on the online goods information;

calculating a value to be accepted by using a value of the first negotiation proposal and discount factor information of a game theory caused by the user;

estimating a value of a second negotiation proposal according to the shop goods information; and

accepting the second negotiation proposal and notifying the shop agent of negotiation success when the value of the second negotiation proposal is greater than the value to be accepted.

13. An electronic commerce system comprising:

a shop goods information storage module for registering shop goods information that is information on the goods stocked in a shop;

a first communication module for receiving a request of information on the desired goods from a mobile shopping agent that forms a radio access area of a personal area network and has entered the radio access area of the personal area network;

a query module for querying to the shop goods information storage module to provide shop goods information on the desired goods to the mobile shopping agent through the first communication module when information on the desired goods is registered to the shop goods information storage module;

a sales negotiation module for receiving a buying condition from the mobile shopping agent through the first communication module, negotiating with the mobile shopping agent about buying of the desired goods to determine sales of the desired goods; and

a user interface module for notifying the user of the negotiated buying condition when the negotiation is successful.

14. The electronic commerce system of claim of claim 13, wherein the electronic commerce system further includes a sales strategy storage module for registering a sales strategy for the goods stocked in the shop, and

the sales negotiation module determines sales for the desired goods in consideration of the buying condition and the sales strategy.

15. The electronic commerce system of claim of claim 14, wherein

the buying condition includes at least one of price, delivery method, approval method, color, brand, buying quantity, coupon, points, mileage, and reserve, and

the sales strategy includes a change of a negotiation items including at least one of price, delivery method, approval method, color, brand, buying quantity, coupon, points, mileage, and reserve.

16. The electronic commerce system of claim 15, wherein

the sales negotiation module determines a first negotiation proposal for satisfying a sales strategy to provide a second negotiation proposal to the mobile shopping agent when a value of the first negotiation proposal is less than a value of the second negotiation proposal of the mobile shopping agent.

17. The electronic commerce system of claim 16, wherein

the sales negotiation module changes a value of the negotiation items to generate a third negotiation proposal when the value of the first negotiation proposal is greater than the value of the second negotiation proposal of the mobile shopping agent to provide the third negotiation proposal to the mobile shopping agent.

18. The electronic commerce system of claim 16, wherein

the sales negotiation module repeats control of the negotiation proposal a predetermined number of times, and notifies the mobile shopping agent of negotiation breakdown when the negotiation is not successful.

19. The electronic commerce system of claim 15, wherein

the sales negotiation module determines a first negotiation proposal of a shop agent for satisfying the sales strategy, calculates a value to be accepted by using the value of the first negotiation proposal and discount factor information of a game theory caused by the user, accepts a second negotiation proposal when the value of the second negotiation proposal provided by the mobile shopping agent is greater than the value to be accepted, and notifies the mobile shopping agent of negotiation success.

20. A recording medium for storing a program including functions of:

forming a radio access area of a personal area network;

providing shop goods information on desired goods to a mobile shopping agent through the radio access area of the personal area network when receiving a request for information on the desired goods from a mobile shopping agent having entered the radio access area of the personal area network;

receiving a buying condition from the mobile shopping agent through the radio access area of the personal area network;

determining sales for the desired goods by negotiating with the mobile shopping agent about buying the desired goods according to the buying condition; and

notifying the user of the negotiated buying condition when the negotiation is successful.

21. The recording medium of claim 20, wherein

the determining of the sales for the desired goods includes

determining the sales for the desired goods in consideration of the buying condition and a sales strategy.